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...pluck the tearoses he liked to wear in his lapel. The funeral was private. In death as in life he remained true to the Jewish faith. Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson of Temple Emanu-El read the services. Before sundown the body was lowered into its grave in the family plot at Cold Spring Memorial Cemetery, not far from the bones of an old friend and wise partner, Mortimer Schiff...
After solving most of Britain's best-known murders he retired at 64, five years ago (TIME, July 8, 1929). All these gentlemen were used to unraveling a shrewd, intelligent, well-constructed plot. Last week they suddenly found themselves flung into the middle of a nightmare of murders, suicides, plots and recriminations that any of them would blush to submit to the editor of a detective story magazine. Assembled at Dijon, they went down to the railroad track where the crushed body of Judge Albert Prince was found, puffed their pipes and pondered while Paris-Soir waited for their...
Excited crowds at the trial of the four antiFascists last week heard the prosecutor demand the same penalty, insisting that one of the real instigators of the plot was the anti-Fascist exile Professor Gaetano Salvemini of Harvard. (From his Cambridge sanctuary Professor Salvemini promptly denied complicity.) But black-shirted judges no longer fear for their regime. Conspirator Capasso was acquitted. Claudio Cianca was let off with 18 years in jail. The other two got 30 years. Great tears of thankfulness rolled down their cheeks as the three prisoners were led from their iron cage to begin sentence...
...elevating his voice, now twitching a finger or two. His is the center role, and he builds it up with a sort of vacillating adroitness--ever spurred on by vain ambition and pride, ever retarded by conceit and a weakness for cards--until the very shabbiness of the plot finally at the end wears through its dexterously constructed exterior, and the whole falls off into a gently exhilarating decline, both pleasing and agreeable...
...with common sense and an instinct for decency. Like a well-manipulated puppet, she passively fits in with Mr. William's style, doing just the right thing at just the right time with an unremitting, process regularity that is perfectly in tune. She is the propelling force behind the plot; it is she who turns the action to its elevation of minded suspense and pessimistic hope; but this is all lost again in the triteness of the closing scenes. The supporting cast is, moreover, excellent...